19 May 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and bag of cheez-its and water

Dinner: We went to Applebys and I ordered:

• "French" onion soup
• 12 oz steak (ate about ¼ of it)
  
• large baked potatoe (ate about ½ of it)
• mixed veggies (ate most of them)
• iced water...

I simply was not hungry. The food was good and I took it home with me with the intent to have it for lunch the next day. I simply ran out of appetite. Then, several hours later, after going to bed early,  I realized I was waking up because I was hungry. I told myself that if I wasn't hungry enough to eat at 6 pm, I certainly wasn't going to eat at midnight...

The next morning, I had my best blood sugar reading in years: 122. (This is the "normal" value I am supposed to be getting all the time. :-[  )

So, now I know how to get morning blood sugar readings. I simply have to starve myself the night before and wake up feeling hungry several times at night. I'm not sure how long I could maintain such a regimen. It does remind me of how Kathie and I lost so much weight the first year we were married. We were simply hungry all the time. That is why we left Overeater's Anonymous in late 1980 and have never gone back...